DALLAS – The Dallas Mavericks announced today that rookie point guard Dennis Smith Jr. will compete in the 2018 Verizon Slam Dunk as part of State Farm® All-Star Saturday Night. The event will take place at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, Feb. 17, and be shown live on TNT.
Smith (6-3, 195) will become just the third player in Mavericks history to compete in the slam dunk contest, along with Tony Dumas and Michael Finley. Finley finished third at the event held in Cleveland in 1997, while Dumas failed to advance past the first round of the 1995 competition held in Phoenix.